Dave Clark Quotes

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People annoy me when they say, ‘Oh, you made a fortune.’

Dave Clark

I’ve always had a philosophy: it doesn’t matter who you love or how you love, the most important thing in life is that you love.

Dave Clark

I miss physically going out on stage and performing. That’s the ultimate high.

Dave Clark

You’ve got two sets of teenagers in England – the mods and the rockers. The rockers are motorcycle addicts. The mods dress like we do. We wear four-button jackets, cuban heel boots, shirts of our own design, with high collars and a tab underneath the collar.

Dave Clark

We’d play the American bases and found all these wonderful records by Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke. Without American music, there would not have been a British Invasion.

Dave Clark

I knew The Beatles before because we did our first television with them, ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars.’

Dave Clark

There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.

Dave Clark

We got our grounding by playing live. You had to fall flat on your face, pay your dues and grow.

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I enjoyed every moment, but we’d been everywhere, done everything. I wanted to get back to being just Dave Clark, not Dave Clark Celebrity.

Dave Clark

Early CDs, I found, flattened out the sound – it took away all the highs.

Dave Clark

What I couldn’t have dreamed of is that the fame would last for the rest of our lives without me having to play another note.

Dave Clark

We copied our hairstyle from Prince Charles, not the Beatles.

Dave Clark

We have our hair cut, but the idea is to look like we didn’t.

Dave Clark

Ready, Steady, Go!’ was the show of the ’60s in London, where the Beatles, the Stones and the DC5, and every other major act started.

Dave Clark

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.

Dave Clark

Anyone can look good if you have 500-flash bulbs exploding in your face.

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We were the first group where the drummer was the front man.

Dave Clark

I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records.

Dave Clark

You can’t go on being a 19-year-old rock-and-roller all your life.

Dave Clark

When we first went to L.A., Howard Koch, who was the head of Paramount Pictures and later President of the Oscars, threw a welcome lunch for us at his house. There were all these stars there – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, Henry Mancini.

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I was raised Church of England but I love the Buddhist philosophy, it’s very powerful, non-violent.

Dave Clark

I was at a party in Alexandra Palace tobogganing on the ski slope, got whiplashed at 40mph, put my hands out to balance myself, and three fingers got caught in the artificial snow. I broke four knuckles. I have not drummed since.

Dave Clark

Rick was a real gentleman. He was very kind and had an amazing sense of humour – he was the funny one in the group, and a very talented musician.

Dave Clark

I always believed that the bubble could burst tomorrow. You’re only as good as your last record.

Dave Clark

The ’60s were a time of great optimism and hope. There was a buzz – everybody could be successful.

Dave Clark

I thought I should have a Rolls, for prestige, so I ordered one. But when it came, I realized that I didn’t really need it.

Dave Clark

People make assumptions when you’re not married. I’ve been best man at five weddings and I said I’d never do it again ‘cos everyone got divorced.

Dave Clark

I bought the rights to ‘Ready, Steady, Go!’ several years ago because I didn’t want the segments to be chopped up and sold off. I thought the shows should be left intact.

Dave Clark

It was always the singer that was the front man, but Mike stood there and played piano and keyboards. He had a great voice and he was the Sixties‘ Rod Stewart, and he contributed a tremendous amount to the Dave Clark Five.

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I never professed to be a great drummer but I was a very heavy drummer.

Dave Clark

I date fairly often, but my work is much more important.

Dave Clark

That was the ultimate high, playing live. You feel like the Pied Piper, or a conductor, knowing how to take an audience up or bring them down.

Dave Clark

I don’t think you’d say we’d be rivals because we’ve got a completely different line-up to The Beatles.

Dave Clark

Nobody thought that the music boom of the Sixties was going to last.

Dave Clark

Our band was different. We were still playing rock ‘n’ roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but an organ and a saxophone.